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Lost 3: Where’s mom?
With special guest appearance by Amanda DeLuca…
So it’s been a while since we’ve heard from Karla and I have a lot of spare time on my hands so I thought I’d contribute my own entry for Switching Channels. We have the same last name, no one will ever know the difference right? Well except that my mother and I have different tastes in television shows. She prefers the “true-ish to life” shows and I prefer shows like LOST. Now there is a reason Lost was one of the top T.V. shows on ABC when it came out. It was different and mysterious and slightly bizarre. I tried numerous times to get her to watch it with me but she always refuses. She just can’t suspend disbelief enough to even try.
I don’t see why it is so hard. I mean black smoke monsters, giant electromagnets, time travel, are these things that far fetched? Ok maybe a little. Part of the fun is theorizing why something happened and how things fit together, and a show like Lost is a sky’s-the-limit show in terms of possibilities.
The creators of Lost have taken great care in providing clues to help viewers. I did in fact read all of the books that were presented in the course of the show including the manuscript that was found by one of the Losties. It’s a silly but entertaining book called “The Bad Twin.” I’ve explored all the websites put up by ABC, called the phone numbers in the fake commercials and read the very numerous theories posted by other fans on message boards. This show is nothing if it isn’t interactive.
The season 3 finale was on this past week and of course I cleared my schedule to watch it. This year we finally got to see who actually got off the island and how. But in true LOST fashion, we get left with more questions than answers. I actually prefer that though, unlike my mom. We get to see the continuation of the final scene from the Season 3 finale with Jack and Kate, and who is in the casket that Jack goes to visit. All great answers to questions from last season, but we are left wondering how any of it could be possible and the new question, now that they got off the island, are they going to go back? And my own continuing question, can I get my mom to watch even one episode? The saga continues…
[Karla enters the scene]
OK, first of all … I totally watched it. I watched an entire episode, sitting right there beside my lovely daughter, as an expression of love and dedication to spending some “quality time” with my family. Even though, I might add, it was killing me to do so. Still, being the dedicated mom that I am, I sat there and watched, praying that I would make it to a commercial break before the urge to roll my eyes overcame me. I can see now that my sacrifice went totally unnoticed, because she doesn’t even remember that I totally watched it. All of it, and to the bitter, bitter end. I’m not surprised that she prefers quizzical entertainment, as she was rarely content with any answer I supplied to her to her numerous questions, many of which were about as logical as the story line of Lost. But I digress.
I will admit to anybody who asks (and honestly, she’s the only one who ever has) that I can’t get into the show. Even if I could suspend disbelief enough to acknowledge black smoke monsters and giant electromagnets, it wouldn’t do any good. I love a mystery, mainly because I like to try to figure them out. There is no figuring this show out. None. It’s like trying to complete a crossword puzzle when the answers are words in a language known only to the person who created the crossword puzzle. And if by some miracle you did figure out a word; the next time you tried to use it, they’d make up a new one … like the Eskimos and their 53 different words for snow. But back to her plea. What if I said I have been watching Lost, but she didn’t see me, because I was in another dimension? Or because I was wearing a cloak of invisibility? Or because I ordered one of those Men In Black amnesia things off eBay, and after we finished watching the show, I used it to wipe the memory from her mind? There’s some suspended disbelief for you.
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By a fan
July 23, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
Good to see you back.